Re: [HACKERS] Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Drop one-argument string_agg? (was Re: string_agg delimiter having no effect with order by)
Date: 2010-08-05 20:31:00
Message-ID: 1281040260.22868.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On tor, 2010-08-05 at 14:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Huh? The functionality proposed for removal is only that of omitting
> an explicit delimiter argument for string_agg(). Since the default
> value (an empty string) doesn't seem to be the right thing all that
> often anyway, I'm not following why you think this is a significant
> downgrade.

I just think it's useful to have the one-argument version. I understand
the functionality is available in other ways.

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